Community Foundation Announces 2018 Community Impact Grants

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The Community Foundation for a greater Richmond, together with its donors, is pleased to announce Community Impact grant awards for 2018, totaling $2.83 million to 78 organizations across the region. Community Impact grants support local nonprofits whose strategies and outcomes align with the Foundation’s four focus areas: community vibrancy, economic prosperity, educational success, and health and wellness. Over the past year, the Foundation has adopted funding priorities in education, housing, and workforce development initiatives that will increase access and opportunity for low-income residents in Richmond.

A significant number of grants were awarded in the City of Richmond, where economic challenges tend to be the highest, with a focus on the East End, Northside and Southside (including the Jefferson Davis Corridor) neighborhoods. Ten grants were also awarded in the Petersburg area, primarily in education. The awards support nonprofit partners who are focused on high quality programming, systems, and advocacy and policy.

Community Vibrancy

Grants awarded in this category aim to ensure that community members enjoy good quality of life, with access to and an appreciation for the arts, cultural opportunities, and natural assets.

Arts and Culture

Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia – $30,000
To execute and expand Hands on History, the BHMVA’s ongoing mission of providing invaluable opportunities to experience history and culture.

CultureWorks – $40,000To support CultureWorks service and leadership for the Richmond and Tri-Cities region. (second year of a three-year grant)

Community Building

Metropolitan Richmond Sports Backers – $50,000To advocate for equity-based transportation infrastructure through the development of safe and accessible places for people to bike and walk in greater Richmond.

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities – $25,000To fund inclusion and equity workshops, retreats, and assemblies for students, educators, business leaders, law enforcement, elected officials, and citizens.

Economic Prosperity

Grants awarded in this category aim to ensure that the region’s resources are sustainable, and its residents are economically stable and secure.

Adult Workforce Development

Children’s Home Society of Virginia – $20,000
To support the Possibilities Project, a collaborative program providing youth who age out of foster care with housing and life skills.

Goodwill of Central and Coastal Virginia, Inc.– $40,000To support planning for GCCVA to lead a consortium of partners to improve workforce development services for challenging populations.

RVA Rapid Transit – $20,000To advance the work of educating, organizing, and advocating for regional public transportation.

The READ Center – $20,000
To support adult literacy programs that include reading, writing, math and digital skills to at least 250 adults in our community.

Homelessness Reduction

CARITAS – $40,000
To support case management staff in the CARITAS shelter.

HomeAgain – $20,000To support general operations of emergency shelters, bridge housing for veterans, rapid rehousing, and permanent and supportive housing.

Homeward – $50,000To support Homeward’s collaborative work with over 30 public and nonprofit homeless service providers of the greater Richmond Continuum of Care and the development of strategic cross-sector partnerships (second year of a three-year grant).

Housing Families First – $40,000To support strategic plan implementation and operation of Hilliard House and Building Neighbors.

St. Joseph’s Villa – $40,000
To support general operations of the Flagler Housing and Homeless Services Program, and educational and mental health services.

Safe and Affordable Housing

Better Housing Coalition – $40,000
To support BHC’s operations as they address the affordable housing shortage in our community and work to empower their 2,100 residents.

Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia – $75,000
To provide mobility counseling to deconcentrate poverty, integrate schools, and reduce barriers that prevent Housing Choice Voucher holders from living in neighborhoods of opportunity.

Project:HOMES – $40,000
To support the Immediate Response Fund that quickly addresses hazardous living conditions of low-income families.

Richmond Metropolitan Habitat for Humanity – $40,000
To revitalize 12 homes acquired from RRHA in the Maymont/Randolph neighborhood into safe, affordable, mixed-income housing for local individuals and families.

Educational Success

Grants awarded in this category aim to ensure that young people achieve in school, engage in their community and are prepared for the workforce.

College/Career Readiness

FutureRVA – $50,000To support FutureRVA’s three-year talent development and talent attraction strategies (second year of a three-year grant).

Partnership for the Future – $40,000To support programming for low-income, college bound students.

K-12 Academic Success – In-School

Blue Sky Fund – $20,000 To support the Explorers program to over 2,700 Richmond Public School students.

Chesterfield County Education Foundation – $25,000To grow the operating capacity to support a growing school division.

Communities In Schools of Chesterfield – $25,000To support expansion of programming to Meadowbrook High School.

Communities In Schools of Petersburg – $25,000To support Integrated Student Support Program at the elementary level and develop and implement a Middle School Transition Program.

Communities In Schools of Richmond – $100,000To support coordination services for students in RPS, including targeted services for Latino students in Southside Richmond.

VCU Foundation – $100,000
To support the Richmond Teacher Residency program and a pilot in Petersburg to create a sustainable pipeline of highly-effective teachers committed to the students of RPS and PCPS for the long term.

K-12 Academic Success – Out-of-School

Boys & Girls Club of Metro Richmond – $50,000To support work in out-of-school time including creating and implementing trauma-informed systems within the five clubs and four neighborhoods they serve.

Higher Achievement Program, Inc. – $25,000To support intensive program of expanded learning, mentorship, and opportunity for underserved middle school students.

NextUp RVA – $150,000To expand a citywide afterschool network for Richmond’s youth through a unique model that multiplies the impact of investments by eliminating fragmented, duplicated services and removing cost and transportation barriers.

Peter Paul Development Center – $50,000To support the after-school and summer educational program that helps strengthen the academic performance of students in grades 2-12 in Richmond’s East End.

The Science Museum of Virginia Foundation – $25,000To support the first-year programming and strategic audience development of a broad range of applied STEM skills and affiliated career pathways through project-based learning.

United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg – $50,000To support delivery of continuous improvement process for up to 50 sites, improvement of Richmond YPQI, expansion of professional learning community to regional youth program providers, and design/delivery of advanced trainings for staff.

Virginia Excels – $15,000To support pilot operations and programming of comprehensive advocacy training to parents and community members of Richmond Public Schools.

YMCA of Greater Richmond – $50,000To support youth and teen programs in Richmond and Petersburg.

Kindergarten Readiness

FRIENDS Association for Children – $25,000To support early childhood, preschool, and school-age development programs.

Greater Richmond ARC- $20,000To support services for children with disabilities by supporting therapists’ travel to the child’s natural environment and translation costs for non-English speaking families.

Partnership for Families – $40,000To support a comprehensive planning process for a model that ensures child/parent success in early learning.

Smart Beginnings Greater Richmond – $100,000To provide capacity building support (second year of a three-year grant).

Smart Beginnings Southeast – $25,000To support quality and access to the early childhood system in Petersburg through Westview Early Learning Center.

Virginia Early Childhood Foundation – $20,000To support Richmond Area Service Alliance (RASA) and steps to bolster two-generation supports for families in concentrated poverty.

Virginia Literacy Foundation – $40,000To support a project that helps achieve equity in kindergarten readiness, and family and health literacy among Richmond’s Southside children and families.

Richmond City Health District – $75,000To empower leadership and connectivity in public housing residents and providers through a collective impact model.

Virginia League for Planned Parenthood – $25,000To support the operations for comprehensive, high-quality primary health care.

Basic Physical Health

FeedMore – $50,000
To support Meals on Wheels and Senior Nutrition Programs.

Shalom Farms – $25,000
To improve the health and increase self-sufficiency of low-income communities with limited access to healthy food, resources, and supports to improve health.

Targeted Interventions

Greater Richmond SCAN – $25,000To reduce the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), build community resilience, and reduce the prevalence of ACEs in the region.

The James House Intervention/Prevention Services – $25,000To provide trauma informed care, safe shelter, and advocacy for children and adults in the Tri-Cities affected by sexual violence, domestic violence, stalking, and child abuse and neglect.

Virginia Home for Boys and Girls – $20,000To support the Group Care Services program to help children heal from trauma so they can transition to foster care, adoption or biological family.